user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v6.18.1

net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()

2025-09-30T13:45:53Z

Instead of sharing sd->defer_list & sd->defer_count with many cpus, add one pair for each NUMA node. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-4-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: use llist for sd->defer_list

2025-09-30T13:45:53Z

Get rid of sd->defer_lock and adopt llist operations. We optimize skb_attempt_defer_free() for the common case, where the packet is queued. Otherwise sd->defer_count is increasing, until skb_defer_free_flush() clears it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-3-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic

2025-09-30T13:45:52Z

This is preparation work to remove the softnet_data.defer_lock, as it is contended on hosts with large number of cores. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Jason Xing Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: gso: restore ids of outer ip headers correctly

2025-09-25T10:42:49Z

Currently, NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID indicates that the inner-most ID can be mangled. Outer IDs can always be mangled. Make GSO preserve outer IDs by default, with NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID allowing both inner and outer IDs to be mangled. This commit also modifies a few drivers that use SKB_GSO_FIXEDID directly. Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Edward Cree # for sfc Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-4-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

psp: base PSP device support

2025-09-18T10:32:06Z

Add a netlink family for PSP and allow drivers to register support. The "PSP device" is its own object. This allows us to perform more flexible reference counting / lifetime control than if PSP information was part of net_device. In the future we should also be able to "delegate" PSP access to software devices, such as *vlan, veth or netkit more easily. Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250917000954.859376-3-daniel.zahka@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: use NUMA drop counters for softnet_data.dropped

2025-09-14T18:35:17Z

Hosts under DOS attack can suffer from false sharing in enqueue_to_backlog() : atomic_inc(&sd->dropped). This is because sd->dropped can be touched from many cpus, possibly residing on different NUMA nodes. Generalize the sk_drop_counters infrastucture added in commit c51613fa276f ("net: add sk->sk_drop_counters") and use it to replace softnet_data.dropped with NUMA friendly softnet_data.drop_counters. This adds 64 bytes per cpu, maybe more in the future if we increase the number of counters (currently 2) per 'struct numa_drop_counters'. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250909121942.1202585-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: update NAPI threaded config even for disabled NAPIs

2025-08-12T12:43:05Z

We have to make sure that all future NAPIs will have the right threaded state when the state is configured on the device level. We chose not to have an "unset" state for threaded, and not to wipe the NAPI config clean when channels are explicitly disabled. This means the persistent config structs "exist" even when their NAPIs are not instantiated. Differently put - the NAPI persistent state lives in the net_device (ncfg == struct napi_config): ,--- [napi 0] - [napi 1] [dev] | | `--- [ncfg 0] - [ncfg 1] so say we a device with 2 queues but only 1 enabled: ,--- [napi 0] [dev] | `--- [ncfg 0] - [ncfg 1] now we set the device to threaded=1: ,---------- [napi 0 (thr:1)] [dev(thr:1)] | `---------- [ncfg 0 (thr:1)] - [ncfg 1 (thr:?)] Since [ncfg 1] was not attached to a NAPI during configuration we skipped it. If we create a NAPI for it later it will have the old setting (presumably disabled). One could argue if this is right or not "in principle", but it's definitely not how things worked before per-NAPI config.. Fixes: 2677010e7793 ("Add support to set NAPI threaded for individual NAPI") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Joe Damato Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250809001205.1147153-3-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: define an enum for the napi threaded state

2025-07-25T01:34:55Z

Instead of using '0' and '1' for napi threaded state use an enum with 'disabled' and 'enabled' states. Tested: ./tools/testing/selftests/net/nl_netdev.py TAP version 13 1..7 ok 1 nl_netdev.empty_check ok 2 nl_netdev.lo_check ok 3 nl_netdev.page_pool_check ok 4 nl_netdev.napi_list_check ok 5 nl_netdev.dev_set_threaded ok 6 nl_netdev.napi_set_threaded ok 7 nl_netdev.nsim_rxq_reset_down # Totals: pass:7 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-4-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: Use netif_threaded_enable instead of netif_set_threaded in drivers

2025-07-25T01:34:55Z

Prepare for adding an enum type for NAPI threaded states by adding netif_threaded_enable API. De-export the existing netif_set_threaded API and only use it internally. Update existing drivers to use netif_threaded_enable instead of the de-exported netif_set_threaded. Note that dev_set_threaded used by mt76 debugfs file is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-3-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: s/dev_close_many/netif_close_many/

2025-07-19T00:27:47Z

Commit cc34acd577f1 ("docs: net: document new locking reality") introduced netif_ vs dev_ function semantics: the former expects locked netdev, the latter takes care of the locking. We don't strictly follow this semantics on either side, but there are more dev_xxx handlers now that don't fit. Rename them to netif_xxx where appropriate. netif_close_many is used only by vlan/dsa and one mtk driver, so move it into NETDEV_INTERNAL namespace. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717172333.1288349-8-sdf@fomichev.me Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski